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Ashford
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Ashford in Kent for the 2010 general election.
Location of Kent within England.
County	Kent
Electorate	81,947 (December 2010)^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1885 (1885)
Member of Parliament	Damian Green (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	West Kent
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South East England

Ashford is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.

Contents

1 Boundaries
- 1.1 Boundary review
2 Members of Parliament
3 Elections
4 See also
5 Notes and references
6 Sources

Boundaries

Ashford constituency has the same boundaries as Ashford borough. It comprises the rapidly expanding town of Ashford together with the smaller town of Tenterden and 35 villages.

Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Kent, the Boundary Commission for England made major changes to the existing constituencies as a consequence of population expansion across the county. These changes took effect at the 2010 general election.

The electoral wards used in the modified Ashford constituency are entirely within the borough of Ashford;

Aylesford Green, Beaver, Biddenden, Bockhanger, Boughton Aluph and Eastwell, Bybrook, Charing, Downs North, Downs West, Godinton, Great Chart with Singleton North, Highfield, Isle of Oxney, Kennington, Little Burton Farm, Norman, North Willesborough, Park Farm North, Park Farm South, Rolvenden and Tenterden West, St Michaels, Singleton South, South Willesborough, Stanhope, Stour, Tenterden North, Tenterden South, Victoria, Washford, Weald Central, Weald East, Weald North, Weald South and Wye

Members of Parliament

Constituency created (1885)

	Member^[2]	Party
1885	William Pomfret Pomfret	Conservative
1892	Laurence Hardy	Conservative
1918	Samuel Strang Steel	Coalition Conservative
1929	Rev. Roderick Kedward	Liberal
1931	Michael Knatchbull	Conservative
1933 by-election	Patrick Spens	Conservative
1943 by-election	Edward Percy Smith	Conservative
1950	Bill Deedes	Conservative
1974	Keith Speed	Conservative
1997	Damian Green	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Ashford [1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Damian Green	29,878	54.1	+2.7
	Liberal Democrat	Chris Took	12,581	22.8	+7.2
	Labour	Chris Clark	9,204	16.7	-9.7
	UKIP	Jeffrey Elenor^[3]	2,508	4.5	+1.4
	Green	Steven Campkin	1,014	1.8	-1.6
Majority			17,297	31.3
Turnout			55,185	67.9	+2.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	+2.3

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Ashford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Damian Green	26,651	51.6	+4.2
	Labour	Valerie Whitaker	13,353	25.8	−6.3
	Liberal Democrat	Chris Took	8,308	16.1	+1.0
	Green	Richard Boden	1,753	3.4	+0.6
	UKIP	Bernard Stroud	1,620	3.1	+0.5
Majority			13,298	25.7	+10.4
Turnout			51,685	65.0	+2.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	+5.2

General Election, 2001: Ashford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Damian Green	22,739	47.4	+6.0
	Labour	John Adams	15,380	32.1	+0.4
	Liberal Democrat	Keith Fitchett	7,236	15.1	−4.6
	Green	Richard Boden	1,353	2.8	+1.6
	UKIP	David Waller	1,229	2.6	N/A
Majority			7,359	15.3	+5.6
Turnout			47,937	62.5	−11.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	+3.2

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Ashford^[4]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Damian Green	22,899	41.4	−13.2
	Labour	John Ennals	17,554	31.7	+11.7
	Liberal Democrat	John Williams	10,901	19.7	−4.4
	Referendum Party	Christopher Cruden	3,201	5.8	N/A
	Green	Richard Boden	660	1.2	−0.2
	Natural Law	Stephen Tyrell	89	0.2	N/A
Majority			5,345	9.7	−20.8
Turnout			55,302	74.2	−5.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	−12.5

General Election 1992: Ashford^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Keith Speed	31,031	54.6	−1.9
	Liberal Democrat	Ms. Christine L.B. Headley	13,672	24.1	−3.3
	Labour	Ms. Doreen A. Cameron	11,365	20.0	+5.3
	Green	Dr. Andrew Porter	773	1.4	−0.1
Majority			17,359	30.5	+1.3
Turnout			56,841	79.2	+3.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.7

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Ashford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edward Percy Smith	18,800	51.96
	Labour	H W Lee	12,575	34.76
	Liberal	H Vesey Strong	4,804	13.28
Majority			6,225	17.21%
Turnout				71.27
	Conservative hold		Swing

Election in the 1930s

General Election 14 November 1935: Electorate 48,914
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Patrick Spens KC	21,323
	Liberal	Richard Borlase Matthews	8,338
	Labour	W J Beck	6,333
Majority
Turnout

Ashford by-election, 1933: Electorate 47,434
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Patrick Spens	16,051	47.7
	Liberal	Rev. Roderick Morris Kedward	11,423	33.9
	Labour	W J Beck	6,178	18.4
Majority
Turnout

General Election 27 October 1931: Electorate 46,882
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Herbert Rudolf Knatchbull	20,891
	Liberal	Rev. Roderick Morris Kedward	14,681
Majority
Turnout

Election in the 1920s

General Election 30 May 1929: Electorate 45,445
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rev. Roderick Morris Kedward	15,753
	Conservative	Samuel Strang Steel	14,579
	Labour	Dr Mont Follick	3,885
Majority
Turnout

General Election 29 October 1924: Electorate 35,659
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samuel Strang Steel	15,159
	Liberal	Leonard John Humphrey	5,487
	Labour	Basil Noble	4,473
Majority
Turnout

General Election 6 December 1923: Electorate 35,223
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samuel Strang Steel	12,644
	Labour	Basil Noble	7,709
Majority
Turnout

General Election 15 November 1922: Electorate 36,054
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samuel Strang Steel
	Labour	Basil Noble
Majority
Turnout

Election in the 1910s

General Election 14 December 1918: Electorate 32,349
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Maj. Samuel Strang Steel	10,258
	Independent	W H Deades	2,408
Majority
Turnout

Notes and references

^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 3)^{[self-published source?]}^{[better source needed]}
^ "UKIP: Ashford". UKIP. http://candidates.ukip.org/index.php?pg=show&eid=191. Retrieved 5 April 2010.
^ "Politcs Resources". Election 1997. Politics Resources. 1 May 1997. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/constit/388.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-25.
^ C. Rallings & M. Thrasher, The Media Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies, p.120 (Plymouth: LGC Elections Centre, 1995)
^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

Sources

British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1974)
Iain Dale, ed. (2003). The Times House of Commons 1929, 1931, 1935. Politico's (reprint). ISBN 1-84275-033-X.
The Times House of Commons 1945. The Times. 1945.
The Times House of Commons 1950. The Times. 1950.
The Times House of Commons 1955. The Times. 1955.

v t e Ashford, Kent

Locations in the parish of Ashford	Bockhanger · Bybrook · Newtown · Little Burton · Park Farm · South Ashford · Stanhope

Buildings	Ashford International Station · Ashford railway works · Church · East Hill Mill · Victoria Flour Mills

Businesses	Ailsa Craig Engines · Ashford Designer Outlet · Brake Bros Ltd · County Square · H.S. Pledge & Sons Ltd · Kentish Express

Events	Operation Stack

Military	Joint Services School of Intelligence

People	List of people from Ashford, Kent

Political	Ashford borough · Ashford constituency · Local elections (1999, 2003, 2007, 2011)

Schools	Ashford School · Highworth School · John Wallis Academy · South Kent College · The North School · The Norton Knatchbull School

Sport, arts and leisure	Ashford Green Corridor · Ashford United · Kent Opera · Stour Valley Walk

Media	Ashford Herald · Kentish Express · KMFM Ashford

Twin towns	Bad Münstereifel · Fougères · Hopewell

v t e Constituencies in South East England (84)

Conservative (74)	Aldershot Arundel and South Downs Ashford Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Beaconsfield Bexhill and Battle Bognor Regis and Littlehampton Bracknell Brighton Kemptown Canterbury Chatham and Aylesford Chesham and Amersham Chichester Crawley Dartford Dover East Hampshire East Surrey East Worthing and Shoreham Epsom and Ewell Esher and Walton Fareham Faversham and Mid Kent Folkestone and Hythe Gillingham and Rainham Gosport Gravesham Guildford Hastings and Rye Havant Henley Horsham Hove Isle of Wight Maidenhead Maidstone and The Weald Meon Valley Mid Sussex Milton Keynes North Milton Keynes South Mole Valley Newbury New Forest East New Forest West North East Hampshire North Thanet North West Hampshire Oxford West and Abingdon Portsmouth North Reading East Reading West Reigate Rochester and Strood Romsey and Southampton North Runnymede and Weybridge Sevenoaks Sittingbourne and Sheppey South Thanet South West Surrey Spelthorne Surrey Heath Tonbridge and Malling Tunbridge Wells Wantage Wealden Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Worthing West Wycombe

Labour (4)	Oxford East Slough Southampton Itchen Southampton Test

Liberal Democrats (4)	Eastbourne Eastleigh Lewes Portsmouth South

Green (1)	Brighton Pavilion

Speaker (1)	Buckingham

South East England European constituency: Conservative (4) UKIP (2) Liberal Democrats (2) Green (1) Labour (1)

Coordinates: 51°06′N 0°48′E / 51.1°N 0.8°E / 51.1; 0.8

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